The Individual Components of Gen AI Application Deployment

The rise of generative AI has introduced new threats while driving demand for solutions that manage AI services and help development teams control, secure, and operate AI applications and APIs at scale. AI Gateways function similarly to traditional API gateways as they serve as a unified endpoint for connecting AI infrastructure and services, providing comprehensive control, security, and observability of AI traffic between applications and models.

Gen AI Security platforms on the other hand deliver end-to-end Gen AI security and governance—protecting both your users and AI applications without disrupting productivity. Gain real-time visibility into user interactions, enforcing AI policies, and preventing sensitive data leakage before it happens are some of the key tenets of Gen AI runtime protection. From real-time traffic monitoring to deep behavioral insights, security products help organizations secure AI usage at scale while maintaining visibility, compliance, and control.

Gen AI Gateways: The Operational Layer

Gen AI gateways act as centralized control points for managing access to AI models (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex). Gen AI gateways are designed to streamline and enhance AI adoption for developers and organizations. They serve as a unified interface for interacting with over hundreds of AI models, offering advanced tools for control, visibility, and security for Gen AI applications. Key functions include:

Unified Access: Provide a single endpoint for multiple AI services, simplifying integration and reducing complexity.

Full Stack Observability: Ability to record every request and response with plethora of details around cost, performance, and accuracy.

Traffic Management: Optimize load balancing, reduce latency, and ensure high availability through dynamic routing.

Prompt Engineering: Ability to compare prompts across models and run parallel tests, analyze performance, and perfect prompts with real-time feedback. Capabilities to centralize and version control prompts to maintain robust publishing workflows with quick iterations.

Gen AI Security Solutions: Comprehensive Runtime Protection

Gen AI Security products monitor all Gen AI-related traffic in real time—correlating user behavior, provider risk levels, and data flows between applications. They quickly detect and mitigate exploits to ensure suspicious activity is identified and addressed without delay. They deliver actionable, real-time intelligence into user behavior, network activity, and AI-specific exploits. Key functions include:

Shadow AI Discovery: Discover the full spectrum of Gen AI usage including services, code editor plugins, desktop applications, personal or freemium accounts, internal tools, agents, and LLMs. Gain critical insight into how and where enterprise data is being accessed. 

Threat Detection: Use AI/ML to identify advanced attacks like prompt injection, jailbreaks, privilege escalation, data leaks, or adversarial exploits.

Data Protection: Mask sensitive data, redact PII, and prevent unauthorized data exfiltration. Ability to handle code, documents, screenshots, and images and perform real-time, multimodal inspection to detect sensitive data no matter how it’s shared. 

Behavioral Analysis: Monitor model inputs/outputs for anomalies, hallucinations, or policy violations. Detect memory corruption, adversarial context injection and monitor for goal deviation, tool misuse, and agent privilege escalation.

Acuvity + Portkey Better together

Portkey equips AI teams with everything they need to go to production – Gateway, Observability, Guardrails, Governance, and Prompt Management, all in one platform. Acuvity with its Gen AI Security Platform – RYNO, empowers enterprises to adopt generative AI with confidence by delivering full-spectrum security and governance. Built around four core pillars—Visibility, Risk Assessment, Policy Enforcement, and Governance. With the industry leading products in the Gen AI Gateway and Gen AI Security categories with features outlined above the two products together can form a complementary, layered defense strategy that addresses both operational efficiency and advanced threat protection in generative AI ecosystems. 

Conclusion: Gen AI gateways streamline operational access and baseline security, while specialized Gen AI security solutions deliver deep threat intelligence and proactive risk mitigation. Together, Acuvity and Portkey create a resilient framework: gateways manage how AI services are consumed, and security tools ensure safe and compliant consumption. This synergy between the products from Acuvity and Portkey are critical for enterprises scaling generative AI securely and responsibly.